Windows 10: cloning with Macrium

Discus and support cloning with Macrium in Windows 10 Backup and Restore to solve the problem; I am trying to clone a small drive in an old laptop to a larger drive for the extra storage I have used just a straight clone onto an unallocated disk... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Backup and Restore' started by ICIT2LOL, Oct 26, 2020.

  1. ICIT2LOL Win User

    cloning with Macrium


    I am trying to clone a small drive in an old laptop to a larger drive for the extra storage I have used just a straight clone onto an unallocated disk , formatting the disk with exfat deleting the volumes so that the disk becomes empty and even tried it with the disk marked as RAW.
    However much I try I keep coming back to failing with error 8 any thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated as I have tried reinstalling Windows onto the larger drive but for some reason the net connection just keeps dropping out so I feel a clone is the only way I can fix what I want to do.

    Am at the moment cloning one of my other machines and am going to try cloning staright to thathoping the smaller disk will clone by overwriting the clone I am making.

    :)
     
    ICIT2LOL, Oct 26, 2020
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  2. WinstonR Win User

    Access to cloned HD

    Hi Dave,

    I used Macrium Reflect (MR) to clone the SSD. It is quite possible the cloning operation did not succeed in creating a bootable drive. I have used it successfully in the past for several clones. How can I determine

    • if the boot instructions came over with the clone?
    • or should I try cloning the drive again?
    This computer is a Dell refurbed workstation and I am uncertain if it was set up in a RAID configuration although it came with only 1 rotating hard drive.
     
    WinstonR, Oct 26, 2020
    #2
  3. Cloning an external HDD

    Doing a clean Install while switching hard drive is always recommend due to the fact that the hardware configuration of each PC is different.

    What I suggest is to Clone the other data partitions except C:

    Use Macrium reflect a freeware for this.

    Cloning a disk - KnowledgeBase - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase
     
    Sumit Dhiman2, Oct 26, 2020
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  4. hfffoman Win User

    cloning with Macrium

    start menu doesn't work on OS cloned with Aomei

    Thanks. I did this and it worked exactly as suggested. Problem solved.
     
    hfffoman, Oct 26, 2020
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